Many patients, prostate cancer advocates, and prostate cancer educators may be interested in a recent article exploring how physicians who manage prostate cancer regularly think about active surveillance (AS) and how to discuss this with their patients. … READ MORE …
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Prostate Cancer International is very proud to have been part (through PCPC3) of helping to have a patient participate in the very first session of the recent Genitourinary Cancers Symposium in Orlando, Florida (which was all about active surveillance and its application). … READ MORE …
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It is well understood that there can be big differences between what we are told and what we later say and think that we heard. It is also the case that what we are told may commonly reflect the beliefs of the person doing the telling (as opposed to actual, factual information). … READ MORE …
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THE "NEW" PROSTATE CANCER INFOLINK 